There are animals everywhere present at the manger, sometimes most unusual ones, but neither the Italian nor the Spanish, German or Latin-American traditions ... not to forget Nativity sets. The ...

Theologians set about solving this riddle with great ... if hard to imagine being incorporated into the annual school nativity play. God is odd about sex. The Bible and Christian writings are ...

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By Bedross Der Matossian In 1894, the American archeologist Frederick J. Bliss made a seminal discovery: a richly decorated ...

Disputes over the right of preeminence at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre had been ongoing for two centuries between the Latin (Catholic ... Bethlehem Church of the Nativity to Catholic clergy.” ...

SEX is perhaps the last thing that you would expect Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch to want to write about, especially in ...

Christmas symbols we all know and love Nothing says “Christmas” like the sights, smells and sounds of the season: From Christmas cookies to eggnog and mistletoe, the holidays wouldn’t be the same ...

The history of the Latin Church between the 14th and the 16th centuries seems to have been permeated by an atmosphere of pathos and tragedy allotting a special place to the Passion of Christ in ...

A sacramental is anything set apart or blessed by the Church to ... the mother of St. John the Baptist; (3) the Nativity, or birth, of Our Lord; (4) the Presentation of the Child Jesus in the ...

The name Advent (From the Latin word Adventus ... other doctors of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, have left us set sermons de Adventu Domini, quite distinct from their Sunday homilies ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The 24th annual Amigos International Festival Latino is set for Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 9-10, at Ogden Park, according to organizers. The festival will run from 11 a.m. to ...